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alt title(s): Squicked Squick: Possibly a contraction of "squeamish" and "Ick!" A negative emotional response, more specifically a disturbed or disgusted one. As in: "The relationship between Cordelia and Connor in Angel Season Four gave me a case of the squicks."
"Squicky" and "squicked" are also common forms, with this very wiki having apparently invented the form "squicktastic". Sufficient squick can cause even the most enthusiastic fan to stand in the shower for three hours, frantically scrubbing at their skin and shrieking "UNCLEAN! I FEEL SO UNCLEAN!"
Squick is different from disgust in that it emphasizes a physical reaction, without a moral judgment. Somebody saying "gay porn squicks me" means they find it extremely unpleasant to look at, but don't, in principle, have anything against its existence, so long it's kept out of their view.
Squicks are more striking when they push the taste of a fan who has already been willing to accept a story's strangeness.
Not to be confused with squee, the very opposite. We hope. Squick is a common reason for shipping to Abandon Ship.
See also Fan Disservice, for when an image that would normally be considered Fanservice elicits this reaction due to the circumstances involved; and Moral Event Horizon, for when a bad guy's Kick The Dog moment goes way too far, often into this territory. Be sure to use plenty of Brain Bleach to erase these unpleasant mental images.
Supposedly, the term originally comes from the kink community. "Squick" is apparently the onomatopoeic word for the sound of fucking a hole that has been made in someone's skull, something that would definitely be a squick for most people.
Examples:
Live Action TV
- The To Catch A Predator segments of Dateline NBC.
- Anything made by Derren Brown.
- Forever Knight had its share of squick moments. Top amongst them is: "Mother, daughter, lover... why can't I be all three?" Pretty squicky all by itself, but when you know it was said to this guy
 ◊ by a teenage girl? Even he was squicked! Squicked enough to cut her head off and leave her buried for 2000 years or so.
- A Clean House Comes Clean episode (a behind the scenes episode that replaces the characters' normally simple enough natural performances with Infomercial-level scriptedness) featured Go-To-Guy Matt having Interspecies Romance. At the end of the episode, Matt gets a page from the monitor lizard, it's time for their regular checkers date.
- Depending on your point of view, Supernatural either depends on this or Gorn. Well, come on now, what do you call having Jensen Ackles take his shirt off only to have his skin torn off/his teeth falling out?
- It's squicky, just how much the brothers are obsessed with each other's sex life. Sam obviously thinks Dean is a massive slut who is only capable of having one night stands but seriously, dude, "The Magnificent Seven"? Most guys would want to get as far away as possible if their older brother was having visible sex.
- It's more of a emotional thing but in "All Hell Breaks Loose", when Dean was begging the Crossroads Demon to bring Sam back and taking whatever time she would give him, you couldn't help but feel dirty. The closest example to real life would be Sam in jail and him whoring himself out to raise the bail money. Sure, it's a nice thing to do but oh so very degrading.
- A huge one in "Lazarus Rising": Sam is either having sex with Ruby (and remember, Ruby is a demon so he's technically raping her host's body) or doesn't care that she's possessing an innocent girl who he had just had casual, no-strings-attached sex with. Either way, the implications are pretty sickening.
- Even the information recently given that Ruby's current host was a brain-dead coma patient that the doctor's pulled the plug on only marginally lessens this.
- While Dean's demon-possessed Grandpa leaning in far too close and sniffing his neck was more of the sickhotwrong variety, Mary's making out session with her dead, demon-possessed Dad to seal her deal to bring John back from the dead and pretty much doom her family was pure 100% squick.
- "Metamorphosis"... just "Metamorphosis". The Monster Of The Week snapping Travis's cast, taking a bite out of Travis's neck, getting almost orgasmic over Dean's blood, eating all that raw hamburger meat... Excuse me while I go throw up.
- Used for humorous effect in Stargate SG-1 when Teal'c says "I would prefer not to consume bovine lactose at any temperature." Pointing out that every day most people do drink the fluid that comes from the modified sweat glands of cows.
- Star Trek Voyager had the Vidiians, a race whose hat is Squick. And Nightmare Fuel.
- Numerous fans of Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles seem to be extremely squicked by the hints of a relationship developing between Cameron and John. Clearly, they have not been watching enough anime.
- Well, it helps that Cameron is a Ridiculously Human Robot who happens to be played by the smokin' hot Summer Glau.
- Let's get right down to it - future you sends a you Summer Glau-bot that's been reprogrammed to serve you back to when you're 16. If she's not shagging you rotten from Day One, you did something very wrong.
- To shoehorn in the obligatory Buffy the Vampire Slayer reference- the heroine's on-off, masochistic relationship with Spike. No telling which was more disturbing: the attempted rape, the whole punch-up-then-shag-wildly dynamic ... or the fact many fans liked and supported the 'ship. If that's what people look for, no wonder our ideas of love and romance are hopelessly twisted!
- Come to think of it, the fact that Buffy's effectively a necrophile is enough to make you get out the brain bleach ...
- Wonder Showzen once had an episode with Wordsworth getting cooties (which are presented in Wonder Showzen as a serious disease that eats cancer for breakfast), and Him removing his crusty old skin flakes and advertising as a snack called Chewties. I mean, I have a very weird mind, and not even I could have thought of that. Also, there's something seriously messed up about the Animal Dance segment.
- The third Austin Powers film, Goldmember, also featured a character who devoured his old skin flakes.
- The short-lived show Profit was compellingly distasteful, but one plot point reigns supremely squicktastic: the title character's stepmother shows up to blackmail him into providing not only a nice lifestyle, but also regular sexual gratification.
- Its Always Sunny In Philadelphia features a lot of moments that many viewers may find squicky. Cannibalism and incest are among the many subjects covered in the show that some viewers find offensive and disturbing.
- Marty falling in love with Todd and having sex with him on One Life To Live. Why is this squicky? Because due to Marty's amnesia, she doesn't remember that Todd led her gang rape, was unrepentant for years, and psychologically tortured her all during the rape trial. (Yes it occurred in 1993, but it was a major storyline for years and the viewers got to see the rape in pretty graphic detail.)
- On The Tonight Show Jay Leno acts really freaking creepy when there's a female guest on his show. His behaviour around Martha Stewart on Monday's episode was particullarly squicky.
- The UST between George-Michael and Maeby (cousins) from Arrested Development often squicks people out.
Fan Fic
Western Animation
- South Park gives a whole new dimension to Squick. It's what Squick smokes.
- Drawn Together had a character in its second episode with a tentacle monster for a vagina. By the end of the series that would be one of their least alarming moments.
- Spongebob Squarepants. The older episode "Naughty Nautical Neighbors". "Hey buddy. I warmed it up for ya!"
- Speaking of Ren And Stimpy, two words: "Hermit Ren". That episode is quite possibly the most masterfully disturbing (as in, it never goes overboard but still makes one reach for the nearest bucket) thing ever animated. See its Nightmare Fuel entry for more. Or don't. We completely understand.
- Pedophile Sgt. Hatred in The Venture Brothers, sucking on his wife's baby "maize" toes in the middle of a wedding.
- The Simpsons has various scenes where Cletus and Brandine are husband and wife, siblings, cousins, father and son, and mother and son at the same time.
- See Homer's eyes go crusty, and no amount of Brain Bleach will seem to work!
- Try this Marge quote on for size: "Food keeps my family happy, so I make a few practice dinners before showtime. 'Cause at six o'clock, we go live!"
- I'm honestly not getting this one.
- Okay, to put things in perspective, the quote comes from the episode "Brawl in the Family". During the storyline involving Gabriel the angel/social worker, he goes to see Marge and tries her home-baked brownies. He comments, "You sure do love cooking." Marge then says the above quote, leaving Gabriel disturbed. That other Wiki describes this scene as thus: "When it is Marge's turn, she tells him how she loves to cook, although a little creepily."
- In Gargoyles, there's probably a few things that could squick folks if they think too hard about it, but what stands out the most blatantly is probably Hyena's constant come-ons to the robotic head-in-a-cybersuit of Coyote. Including such gems as "Wanna make sparks together?" The ...relationship... between her and her brother Jackal is already a little iffy, but Jackal's response to his sister's new interest being, "That's...sicker than usual," implies a whole 'nother mess.
- Even Coyote itself seems a little disturbed by her. And it's a robot. When you've squicked out an emotionless computer, you've definitely done something very wrong.
- For another Gargoyles sitch, a not-too-uncommon minor character ship from the series is the original Coyote (i.e. the Trickster spirit) with Elisa's younger sister Beth. The squick? Coyote's preferred human form is that of Beth's father, Peter, as a younger man.
- The episode of Moral Orel where Orel uses his mother's pastry bag to artificially inseminate dozens of women in the town. Cut to several weeks later as Orel and Doughy walk past several houses where the windows show pregnant women throwing up. The fact that Orel is twelve doesn't help. At all.
- The slurm factory episode of Futurama revealed that the popular drink slurm is made of slime from the slug queen's tail.
- In Transformers Animated oil is used as analogue for both alcohol and blood. This become especially noticeable when the Constructicons find a trail of oil that was leaking from Bumblebee and drink it and go looking for more.
- In American Dad Francine once gave Stan drugs in his sleep to keep him from growing. She injected it with a needle into his head, but then the needle broke off and was stuck. She then took his phone and slam it into the needle, jamming the thin all the way into skull.
Comic Books
- The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen. One can't help wondering if Alan Moore had a bet on to see how many people he could squick out while writing Vol 2. Hideously wrinkled geriatrics rutting on top of much younger women? Check. Ruining kids' book characters so you can never look at them in the same way again? Check. Death by sodomy? Check. He needs counseling!
- Dude... would you really want to be the one to psychoanalyze Alan Moore? Can you imagine the Hannibal Lecture you'd be getting? You'd be out of your element, Donnie.
- I think the portion of The Watchmen lifted from the journal of Rorschach's therapist speaks for itself.
- The Walking Dead has some definite squickiness... Villain "The Governer" has captured some of our heroes, and one of them, a warrior woman named Michonne, bites his ear off upon the capturing. He pays her back by tying her up, beating and raping her every night for a week or so. Now keep in mind that before this, Michonne has already shown some signs of mental instability, so when she gets free, she goes after the Governer, and well... nails his genitals to a plank, takes a power drill to both his shoulders, cuts one of his arms off, cauterizes the stump with a blowtorch, rams a spoon up his butt, uses the same spoon to dig out one of his eyes, and cuts off what's left of his penis with her katana. Unsuprisingly, he's pretty miffed at the heroes after that.
- Does that mean he survives that?!
- Unfortunately, yes. Very, VERY unfortunately.
Literature
- Jane Austen. No, really. In Emma, there's a pretty big age gap between the heroine and her love interest, which there's nothing inherently wrong with, but if you consider that they've actually known each other since he was sixteen and she was a baby... and of course there's that bit where Mr Knightley finally declares his love for Emma and ruins a suitably epic, romantic speech by telling her how he held her in his arms when she was a baby... eww.
- The Stone Diaries has the same type of Squick, only on purpose.
- In The Way We Live Now by Anthony Trollope, Roger, a deeply likable character, has this same sort of attraction to his cousin Henrietta. Roger's best friend Paul does point out the inherent unhealthiness of such a match, and ends up marrying the girl himself.
- The king of high-class squick, by far, has to be the Marquis de Sade, from whose name we get the word "sadism." His entry on the Moral Event Horizon page is very well deserved.
- Funnily enough, his books are pretty boring and actually almost tame (and borderline comical) by today's definitions. Just goes on to show that humanity can really improve on anything.
- A Song Of Ice And Fire has a lot of really graphic descriptions of less-than-desirable sex, food, and wounds. And a woman who breastfeeds her five-year-old son. The most infamous of these is probably the scene in A Storm of Swords in which Jaime is re-united with his twin sister Cersei. The two have sex. In a church. On the altar. Next to the body of their recently deceased son. Compared to that, the fact that they smeared Cersei's menstrual blood all over the altar in the process seems almost trivial.
- We didn't need to hear a detailed description of Tyrion's penis. We really, really didn't. Why, George, why?
- A Feast For Crows brings us the joys of Samwell Tarly's 'ridiculous pink mast'. Not especially squicky in the context of the book, but given the character in question and the nature of the descriptions...
- In the Obsidian Trilogy, one major character does a Heroic Sacrifice to help win the war against the bad guys. Human, she had an elf lover, who of course would live We Are As Mayflies; this was one of the early points of contention in their relationship. However, at the very end of the last book, the protagonist discovers she's been reincarnated, as an elven baby. While it's mentioned that elves mature as quickly as humans do and just stay alive a lot longer, the fact that her lover is already planning what he'll do in "eighteen years"...
- Any story that has Vagina Dentata, or a toothed vagina. YAY for Nightmare Fuel!
- Chuck Palahniuk is good at producing squicktastic scenes, particularly in Haunted.
- The Town by Bentley Little. Features a very graphic account of a woman giving birth to a saguaro cactus (with a face and limbs as well), an extremely detailed subplot involving how one of the main characters is sexually attracted to his sister (starting with him accidentally getting an upskirt view of her and climaxing (ahem) with him climaxing into a pair of her stolen panties), and the end rampage, where the main character starts thinking all the women in his family are whores, and thus shoots his daughter (the one lusted after by her brother) up the crotch with a shotgun.
- Lord Raith of The Dresden Files asserted his dominance over his family by killing his sons and sexually enslaving his daughters. What's even worse is that after Papa Raith's spiritual castration, Big Sis Lara likely assumed his place in the bedroom. On that note, we also have good old, really old, Nicodemus and his young daughter, Deidre, who genuinely seem to love each other. Wonder how the wife took it. Maybe that's why her Denarian-form is that of a giant mate-eating insect.
- Worth pointing out that Wifey is a textbook case of Really Seven Hundred Years Old, looking in her teens (in human form) and being willing to offer herself up to strangers if it gets her what she wants.
- Gravity's Rainbow has very graphic descriptions of BDSM, coprophilia and the suggestion of father-daughter incest between two characters. Oh, and a guy being castrated.
- Those of a more sensitive nature might require Brain Bleach just from hearing a plot summary of the most recent Twilight installment. Fridge Logic kicks in mighty quickly: the fact that not only did Jacob Black (the 'thinking girl's alternative' to Edward, the romantic hero) fall in LOVE with Bella's vampire fetus, but this 'baby', though growing to the age of 20 and stopping there at an accelerated rate and supposedly having the INTELLIGENCE of a 20 year old, will not be as emotionally developed as one and will be SEVERELY developmentally screwed up. At best, we get River Tam, at worst, we have a horrifically mentally damaged savant with the mind of a child - and she will be that way FOR ALL ETERNITY. Imagine reasoning with someone with the rational age of a college student - not the most rational of folk to begin with - and the emotional age of a young child, and explaining to it why mommy and daddy are ripping apart that poor bobcat and drinking its blood for sustenance... oh yes, and werewolf Jacob Black, though he will age as much as any ordinary mortal, will still be lusting after her uncontrollably. And if the thought of Edward and Bella having sex doesn't squick you, nothing will. You'd think it'd be like screwing a popsicle, but apparently no~o...
- No he won't.
Werewolves Spirit wolves don't age as long as they keep their spirit forms. It's somewhat of a matter of choice for them, which makes having an immortal bride perfect for Jacob.
- Also, if I recall correctly, Nahuel (the other half vampire/half human hybrid found by Alice late in Breaking Dawn) seemed fairly well-adjusted and mature, given that he never got to know his mother and was raised only by his aunt. If anything, Renesmee has it really good in comparison - still has mommy around and a huge family who will support her in everything she needs.
- Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita is about a constantly self-justifying pedophile who appears to see nothing wrong raping a twelve-year-old. It's first-person-narrated by the pedophile and written in the most beautiful way possible. The resulting cognitive dissonance makes it squick-incarnate, and almost impossible to read.
- The only dissonance is between the way the author intended to make the pedophile come off (repulsive) and the way he actually comes off (sympathetic). But considering the subject matter, who cares?
- The Thornbirds. Its (anti) hero Ralph de Bricassart is a priest (and later Cardinal) who is madly in love with Meggie, a young woman who first became his protegee aged nine. To make matters still worse, Meggie's brother Frank has barely disguised Oedipal yearnings, their aunt Mary Carson lusts after Ralph despite being in her sixties/seventies ... Lovely.
- Anything by VC Andrews. The rule seems to be 'It's okay to sleep with family members provided they're blond, gifted and gorgeous'. Her books run the gamut of incarceration, dead brothers in trunks, child gang rape, amputees ... Whatever was going on in her head?
- Hogg...just...Hogg
- The Lord of the Flies abounds with squick, but one scene stands out especially; when the hunters, led by Jack, slaughter a sow. The scene is frighteningly descriptive with plenty of disturbing sexual references.
- This troper was more bothered by the implication that, had that guy not turned up to save the day, Jack and his cronies would have eaten Ralph ...
- This troper once found an old cookbook called Unmentionable Cuisine. A decent enough idea, the book was about saving money by eating unusual meat; insects, reptiles, rodents, small birds, etc. But then the squick hit the fan in the last chapter, which was about parts of animals which aren't usually eaten, and proudly presented a recipe for herring sperm.
Theater
- Oedipus Rex by Sophocles, which is filled with squicktastic subject matter. Jocasta maims her own infant son and sends him off to be murdered after hearing of a prophecy that he would kill his father and marry his mother. Oedipus kills daddy unrecognized, and then spends years boinking mommy before learning the truth. Then he puts out his own eyes with a brocade pin.
Anime and Manga
- Pretty mild compared to most examples on this page, but being a kids' show, Kidou Tenshi Angelic Layer deserves a mention. Resident obligatory bishonen Oujirou is seventeen years old. His love interest in the manga? Twelve. But wait, it gets worse. In the anime version, he's still seventeen, and his love interest is still twelve, but it's a different girl, and he's still getting over his first love: her mother. Throw in the fact that he offered to be her photographer, his stepbrother semi-stalks her and is also in love with her mother, and you know Freud would have a field day here. The anime company really outdid the original creators here... And they're CLAMP, for heaven's sake! To be fair, only Misaki's, Hatoko's and Ringo's ages were given in the manga. Oujirou could be twelve there for all we know. Not to mention, CLAMP generally writes for their audience. That relationship doesn't seem all that squicky if you happen to be a twelve-year-old.
- Arguably, a large part of Kaori Yuki's Ludwig Kakumei revolves around Squick. We're talking about a necrophiliac prince who marries a psychopathic incestuous princess in the first chapter, for heaven's sake.
- For that matter, almost all of Yuki's work is pretty squicky. Angel Sanctuary is about Brother Sister Incest and teems with lolis and really disturbing massacres, after all.
- Boys Next Door, though it has gorgeous art, includes a teenaged male prostitute falling in love with a guy who murders teenaged male prostitutes, and mid-sex scene, declaring he doesn't mind if he kills him, so long as he makes him into a stew and eats him afterward so he can finally be part of him. Aww.
- The scene of the Gankutsuou manga where the Count French kisses Eloise de Villefort's corpse, her skin peels off, and she's reborn as a kind of Gankutsuou-vampire-thing-lady. They're both so mentally disturbed it becomes funny.
- For some people, the Interspecies Romance in Sailor Moon seemed pretty Squicky on its own. Now, some dubs made this even worse by giving Pegasus the voice of a thirty-something-year-old man (presumably, he is Really Seven Hundred Years Old, but his human form looks pretty young). In other words, an elementary school student having a crush on a winged unicorn who sounds like he's thirty is something you'd better not think too hard about...
- Then again, Chibiusa herself is supposed to have an age in the triple digits... You know what? That doesn't help things one bit, does it?
- In Narutaru, the emotionally stunted Akira Sakura (a middle school student) pressures her classmate Ishida to have sex with her in the nurse's office and loudly masturbates after he runs out. She'd always been pretty unbalanced, but this was one of the reader's first indications that she wasn't about to get better anytime soon.
- There's also what Hiroko's Shadow Dragon, Oni, does to the Girl Posse who bullied her (and how they did that is pretty damn monstrous in its own right). Head bully Aki Honda gets worms forced down her throat after they crawl out its arms, making her stomach start to bulge (in the manga at least) and is then raped with the Shadow Dragon's finger, which has a long claw that pierces her stomach from the inside. In the anime, it appears that the worms fall out of her stomach through the hole; in the manga, though, Oni goes on to rip Aki's body in half at the waist.
- If the above paragraph made you ill, you're better off not asking what happens in later volumes of the manga. Poor, poor Norio...
- Depending on the fan, and their fetish, reactions to the various girls crushing on ten-year-old Negi Springfield in Mahou Sensei Negima. While characters like Nodoka and Yue (who have developed feelings for the boy despite his age) or Makie (who acts as young as Negi is) are pretty tame, Ayaka's blatant Shotacon is pretty bad. Same goes for Evangeline and her crush for Negi based on being in love with his father Nagi, her being Really Seven Hundred Years Old, being a Japanese Vampire, and her obsession with Elegant Gothic Lolita style. So she's an ancient, elegant demon crushing on the son of the person she loves.
- Yeah, but they're still kids as well, just slightly older kids. The relationship wouldn't be looked upon as strange if everyone was ten years older, so why now? I suppose this is why this is considered a "Subjective Trope".
- For the non-yaoi fans, despite all the jokes and references made about Pactio dealing with Negi and the herd of girls in 3-A. If Nagi had a pactio with all members of Ala Rubera, the group is all males (including that pillar of macho, Rakan). Just to be fair, there are other ways of performing a Pactio, it's just that kissing is the fastest and most convenient method.
- The most recent chapter has Negi making Pactios with everyone in Ala Alba for the purpose of making the team as strong as possible. Wonder what will happen when they realize that Kotaro hasn't made a Pactio yet...
- Then there is the scene where Negi, under the control of a spell, french kisses Asuna. Don't worry about the age difference, just keep in mind the thought of any ten-year-old french kissing someone. And because of the spell, he did not really give her a choice.
- Not to mention that recent manga chapters strongly imply that Asuna is his aunt.
- Neon Genesis Evangelion. Rei is a teenage clone of Shinji's dead mother, created by his father in a failed attempt to resurrect Yui. She spends an inordinate amount of time naked with one of them or another. Don't think too hard about it. Wait, now! We almost forgot the part where Shinji sees a comatose Asuka in the movie and his Magic Missile goes off, If You Know What I Mean. Then there's all the Nightmare Fuel Unleaded.
- Also notice that both in Neon Genesis Evangelion and Nadia The Secret Of Blue Water, characters tend to have crushes on characters who are either waaay older or waaay younger than them. Asuka is infatuated with Kaji; Misato seems to have a complex towards Shinji (and Shinji towards her, among others); Rei has kind of an Electra complex towards Gendou, who married Yui who was 10 years younger than him, slept with Naoko who was way older than him then with Ritsuko, who's in love with him due to her complex towards her mother, Kouzou Fuyutsuki had a big crush on Yui... In fact, the Misato-Ryouji couple is one of the only ones that don't have a big age gap in Evangelion. Basically what happens when Love Dodecahedron meets Freud Was Right and Mind Screw. In Nadia The Secret Of Blue Water, there's Grandis/Gladys and Electra crushing on Nemo. Hanson even states explicitly that Grandis loves men in their forties, and scenes from her past imply that she's looking for a lover-cum-father-substitute (her dad even had the same moustache as Nemo!).
- In an earlier case of what could be called Fridge Squick, when the narrator of Nadia The Secret Of Blue Water is revealed several years later and we see it's little Marie who's quite pregnant as it turns out she is going to marry Hanson, one of the Team Rocket. Thing is, during the series, he was in his mid-20s and she was 4 or 5 at the oldest. Even given that this is the late 1800s (and 15-16 year-old brides weren't that uncommon) there's a LOT of finger math going on trying to reduce the eww. Also add the fact that there are strong implications he already had a crush on her when she was four... Yep, even for Anno it's really going far.
- Then there is the case of Elektra/Electra, who is in love with Nemo/Eleusis precisely because he's her adopted dad and eventually gets impregnated by him. Yep, that's Meaningful Name for you.
- A double-dose of squick a la Mai-Otome: It's made clear early on that Nina loves her adoptive father Sergei, and would do anything for him. Later on, when she's under Nagi's command, she tries to take the "do anything for him" part literally by getting him to sleep with her to rob her of her Otome Powers so that she isn't forced to use the Harmonium Organ. Ouch. He ultimately decides not to go through with it.
- Almost the entirety of Volume 8 of Battle Royale.
- Averted in the Hentai series Bondage Faeries: One of the secondary characters is a three hundred years old crone. A shot of her fully in the nude was censored in the name of humanity. Then again, the base material of these comics (faeries having sex with forest animals) probably counts as Squick to many...
- Certain recurring elements in the works of Kenichi Sonoda. Gunsmith Cats has Minnie May, the 17-year-old ex-prostitute who's happy to revisit her old trade when the plot requires it. Her boyfriend - Ken - is 35, they first got together four years earlier, and she takes drugs so she can continue to look like she's about 10, because he likes it that way. (Her age was changed to 18 in the English translation, for some unfathomable reason.)
- Akane from Cannon God Exaxxion is about 10-11 and often drawn in a decidedly FanService-minded way. One scene graphically shows her taking a leak.
- She'd have to be older than that, considering she's in highschool. Still creepy, though. Especially, the sex scene with Hoichi later on, though she does look slightly more "developed" there & he's only a year or so older than her.
- While we're on the subject of Exaxxion, there's also Mad Scientist / Dirty Old Man Hosuke, who has a harem of Bridge Bunnies who are all MUCH younger than him (though they're all at least legal, thank god). Worse yet, their sexual relationship is described in very explicit detail. And to top it all off, a throwaway line at one point creates the implication that the girls have all been brainwashed to some degree.
- Osamu Tezuka's Phoenix: Nostalgia involves a woman who turns herself into a Human Popsicle so she can bear her newborn son's children when he comes of age, which is a bit less icky when you realize they're the only too humans on the planet. This goes on for several generations due to chemicals in the planet's invironment which make it impossible for females to be born. Then, the titular bird leads a shapeshifting alien to the planet in order to help populate it, the one the alien takes as her husbandn is a huge, retarded guy & while they are able to have children, both male & female, the kids are deformed, with no eyes & an antenna that allows them to use telepathy instead.
Film
Video Games
- The first boss fight in Condemned 2 is against a woman in a bloodstained clown-doll Lolita outfit, wielding a buzzsaw lollipop, whose every movement is designed to be as disturbingly sexual as possible. The hypnoboobs don't help either.
- In the online MMORPG Dofus, the males of the Sram race are animated skeletons, while the females are normal humans with flesh and bone. It doesn't become too Squicky until you wonder; how do they reproduce? Presumably they get boned.
- In the Final Fantasy VI remake Emperor Gestahl suggests that Celes and Kefka create progeny to rule the world. There must be a rather large age gap between the two for one thing but the main problem would be simply that it's Kefka.
- The Sending from Final Fantasy X is probably one of the most beautiful scenes in the game until you notice that the heroine is dancing above dead bodies. This troper was much happier when she thought they were just weird underwater flowers.
- In what is possibly the cruelest joke ever played by the developers of a videogame, your "reward" for beating the Hell Temple of La Mulana, a Bonus Level Of Hell which crosses over into Platform Hell territory, is a skimpy swimsuit. Which you then see the male main character wearing.
- In Captain Rainbow, one of the first missions is to prove that Birdo is a woman. You succeed by finding what is hinted to be her vibrator.
- Ape Escape 3. More specifically, Monkey Yellow. He/she/it constantly rubs his/her/its body in a sensual fashion and his/her/its special attack involves shooting ninja stars out of his/her/its nipples. *Shudder*
- In Blue Dragon, When you rest at an inn in one of the Sheep Tribe camps, you get a scene of Shu sleeping under a blanket. I wonder how the Sheep Tribe make blankets...
- The song "Give Me All Your Love" from The World Ends With You has the singer addressing someone who this troper can only guess is a creepy rapist:
Watch me with your scary eyes
Please me with your silky touch, come on
[...]
Feel me when you come inside
Touch me when you want me anytime
- Possibly a case of plain old Engrish, though.
- Despite Vamp's more vicious moments tending to get overlooked by a section of the fandom, most fans agree with Raiden's assessment that he was a lover to BOTH Scott Dolph, and Dolph's daughter Fortune is rather Squickastic (Can you even imagine the conversation for Vamp's and Fortune's Relationship Upgrade?).
- Volgin's sadism tends to squick the part of the fandom that isn't busy writing fanfics of him zapping Raikov in bed, and some people thought the joke video of Volgin confusing Raiden for Raikov to have crossed the line. Some people have a reaction of both amusement AND squick, which is where the Fetish Fuel train takes on passengers...
- As listed in Yandere - Venus causes this reaction by the list of things that turns her on from experimentations on kids to her partner (Snake) being shot.
- Laughing Octopus is an insane woman with Combat Tentacles and Shapeshifting abilities. She practically radiates Squick.
- In the Sonic The Hedgehog games, Knuckles the Echidna and Rouge the Bat are hinted as having a relationship. An echidna and a bat in a relationship. Talk about easy to stomach, right? Also, the only thing remotely close to Fanservice in the series is supplied by six-to-twelve-year-old girls. Said six-to-twelve-year-olds are a bunny and a pink hedgehog, respectively.
- Oh please. That's nothing compared to the Finalhazard from Sonic Adventure 2, who is a giant Godzilla-esque mutated lizard (already creepy in its own right) that, after being beaten by Shadow, retaliated by having an entire space station shoved up its butt! It was a last resort mechanism by Gerald Robotnik to make sure The ARK annihilates the planet. None of that is made up.
- In Dwarf Fortress, the dwarven caravan will happily sell you cow milk, camel milk, and dwarf... milk...
- That last one's actually made from milking maggots. Not that this improves things.
- Bully has several game mechanics similar to its grandpappy, including health recovery mechanics. In later GTA installments, it's done by finding health pick-ups, eating food, or buying hookers. In Bully, it's done by drinking soda or kissing classmates, and not necessarily girls either. While mostly harmless on its own, the realization that the wrong kind of player might buy it for the sole purpose of making fifteen-year-old boys kiss each other might squick you out enough to make you drink soda for a couple of weeks....
Real Life
Tabletop Games
- As a Squick-mitigating measure, White Wolf has traditionally said in its World Of Darkness games that children as supernaturals are exceptionally rare, but the attempt at this in Promethean: The Created is rather a "miss" — it says, particularly in the case of Galateids, that if you do try, you'll usually end up with Pandorans instead. For those not familiar with the game, that means that the corpse, rather than animating itself as a flawed but hopeful creature with the potential for humanity, twitches and tears itself apart into one or more grotesquely hideous, ravenous, irredeemably monstrous beasts that can, at the most dramatic, hope to go from an animalistic cruelty to an utterly wicked and twisted intellect.
- The company has since released World Of Darkness: Innocents, a game line that has the players portraying Muggle children. Some level of squick is expected. It goes above and beyond normal squick with a page dedicated to childhood sexuality, including a claim that children in the six-to-nine age group "may have attempted coitus." The statement in the book's introduction that it was written by real parents will either soften the blow, knowing it's coming from concerned persons, or worsen it when you realize that they felt it should be included any way. The rationalization was "Someone, somewhere, will go down that road with their campaign; let's try to set some guidelines". The page in question is taken from actual studies into the subject, not just spitballed.
- Let's not forget werewolf reproduction. In the Old World Of Darkness, werewolves trying to keep things within the species had overwhelmingly sterile and disfigured offspring, so it's a bit of a turn-off. Instead, they really like humans ''and normal wolves'', with the majority of the resulting Half Human Hybrids being humans that don't get scared easily or typical wolf puppies. There's no form requirement for actual conception. Those deformed werewolf-werewolf offspring? If they get ding the Karma Meter too hard in combat, they'll attempt to rape any nearby fallen combatants, of either side. Oh, and werewolves that never bothered with that whole 'human social skills' thing can cause humans of the opposite sex to instantly and ravenously want to rut with the werewolf, in some twisted form of supernatural da
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